WTH?? I cant believe we've been let down yet again! I was expecting some realLy good games this week because of the festival and all we get is this crap, to hell with nintendo. lol im just kidding, an awesome week, cant wait to DL mario rpg

@MaxPlastic: Ive tried to look at the vc as just being an added bonus tacked on to the main console but the problem with doing that is, when you look at it, the wii doesnt really have anything-else going for it. Just look at this years E3 summit, no mario announcements, no zelda announcements, in fact no "proper" software support at all. All there seems to be in the near future are yet more mini-game based software and wii-music shudder. which nintendo have already admited takes absolutely no skill to play whatsoever. I have been a nintendo fan for over 20 years now but the way they are treating their user-base is abhorrent, im not a geek or otaku but i do enjoy playing serious games and im getting fed-up with nintendo sucking up to the casual market, forgetting thats its the hardcore gamers that put the company in the enviable position it is in now.

Im glad to see lost vikings on there, i was reading down the list and i thought "they cant of forgotten one of the best puzzlers of the 90's surely?" but there it is at the top, well done fella. if i could just add one myself tho, id love to see tetris worlds on there. (i think its that one, were you play tetris on a sphere and you have to spin it around to place the shapes)

WTF...we waited 2 weeks for 2 games? how crap is that? screw you nintendo, im sick of you treating us like crap. On the psn and xbl you get new games and content every week without fail and its good stuff too, not the gaming equivilant of breadcrumbs that you throw to us miserable wretches you call your loyal customer base. i wouldnt mind so much but the w(ank)-ware channel has given us nothing but crap as well. i give up.

slaps forehead in disbelief i cant believe a staff member of nintendo has implied that they dont care about their installed user base/lifelong fans and the company only really cares about casual/niave customers who they can make a quick profit out of. nope never would have believed that in a million years. (sarcasm FTW!!)

does anyonelse get the feeling that nintendo still hasnt forgiven europe for making the master system a success over here in the mid 80's? knowing nintendo, it wouldnt suprise me in the least if they still bore a grudge againt us for siding with their competition.(tho i always prefered the nes personaly.)

you know its things like this that really annoy me about nintendo. they assume that we'll all be so bloody grateful for a wiiware title that we'll forgive all other sins. why cant countries have a wiiware title AND a vc title or do they think we wouldnt be able to handle the excitment? ive had nothing but apathy for wiiware since it was announced and now that its here im still under-whelmed. lets face it, its hardly XBLA is it? i know its still in its infancy and hopefuly something good is gona come out of it but why do they have to neglect their pre-existing fan base in the hope they might sell a few extra copies of a god-awful wiiare title?

SIGH Its as if nintendo think we're all gona be so over-joyed with the wiiware launch that we're not gona care about the v.c. I for one couldnt care less about wiiware and im starting to get a little ***** off with all the crap vc releases lately. Also does anyone really care about C64 games? Im only asking cos they all look terrible to me.

Its not that nintendo are listening to us, this has more than likely been their business plan all along. firstly they sell the console cheap (compared to other consoles on the market) to install a big userbase and then bring out all the peripherals for it that people will need to continue enjoying the console later on which equates to more profit. micro$oft did the same thing recently with their new £159.99 360 price drop. you dont get a harddrive or any online capabilities with the console (which are pretty much essential to 99% of the games out there and so they still gain a profit from naive consumers who end up spending more in the long run. sorry to sound so cynical but unfortunatly thats how business works.

I would love to see mega-cd titles on the vc. sonic cd is my favourite game of the series by a country mile and there were loads of other very good titles for the system as well such as road avenger, star wars rebel assault, and cobra command. Ok there were some real duffers too, jaguar XJ220,night trap and ground zero texas to name but a few ((shudder)).

ive quite suprised to see kirby beating the likes of super mario world and zelda:oot. surely kirby isnt better than those 2 is it? i dont know cos i never played it. Also imo mario world is better than mario 3 cos its basically the same but with better graphics and gameplay and no pointless suits. CAPE MARIO FTW!!!!

Personaly i couldnt care less about wiiware titles, it just seems like an easy way for developers to release boring, 5-min games that wouldnt sell or just arent good enough to warrant a proper release. C'mon nintendo, please stop catering to the casual market and focus on the hardcore gamers who have stuck by you for over 20 years and will continue to support you long after the casuals have gotten bored of the mini-games and will-fit accessories. Honestly, the wii is becoming less and less like a gaming console and more and more like a badly-structured mess that doesnt seem to know what its supposed to be.

Not really bothered about kirby, his games were a little too simple for me. id stilll like to know why Zombies was removed from the list tho, surely it cant be because of the cartoony violence can it? then again it wouldnt suprise me.

Is that the japanese MS in the picture? i had a jap one and i thought it was really cool but for some reason when i moved back to the uk i couldnt find the game cards anywhere ( credit card sized carts that slid in the front of the machine in case anyone doesnt know). was it just that i couldnt find them or were they never released in the uk? Great news tho, MS had some great games back in the day, hopefuly we'll get the original Fist Of The North Star and not the censored european version.

So the publisher of one of the biggest multiplayer games of the nineties has decided to release their mega-selling game on a console thats well-renowned for its on-line and multiplayer capabilities rather than on a console that basicaly doesnt let you communicate or even just play with people outside of their own friend circle? im shocked!!

@chris, i do already own a ps3 and a 360. i dont think a game needs gore to be good but surely they can do better than a game based on running a farm. i think they should at least have a variety of games each week, for instance 1xplatform, 1xbeat em up and 1xstrategy. that way at least most peoples interests are catered for rather than just the "heres a game, dont like it? we dont care" mentality that nintendo seem to have adopted.

Really nintendo, this is the best you could do? A farming game??!! oh please. dont we have enough lightweight kiddy orientated games being released for the wii already? can we have some more grown up games once in a while? please?

ah well, i guess after last weeks 2 great releases it was expecting too much to hope for another good week straight after. they could have at least made an effort for christmas tho but maybe theyre saving it for new years week, we can but hope anyway. HAPPY CRIMBO EVERYONE!!

WTG nintendo for having so much success with the vc. Now howsabout giving all your loyal customers 1 free game download each as a thank you for making it such a success and for helping you make all those millions?

@ INpixl: i totally agree with you on the glitch. it is very annoying and i was quite dissapointed when i downloaded the game. Ive kinda got used to it now but you are right, a game like this should be flawless considering its one of the greatest games ever and some of the rubbish they release on vc with no glitches whatsoever. Sort it out nintendo, i thought you'd treat your mascot with more respect than this.

hmmm only alien soldier for me this week i think. as for the sonic games, theres still sonic cd to look forward to (hopefuly). i might be remembering it with my ever-trusty rose tinted glasses but i remember it fondly.

(SIGH) Once again europe gets the s****y end of the stick. Why does nintendo hate us so much? Its like its written into thir core business plan or something cos thay've always seen us as more of an after-thought than a legitimate market. fun games tho .

i never owned one of these but one of my friends in japan had one. from what i remember, the games were really cool. the ones that stick out in my mind are fist of the north star and r-type, the graphics seemed so ahead of their time ( for the mid-eighties anyway lol)

Woo-hoo!! about frickin' time! Loved this game back in the day and still love it now. I got this when it first came out and is prob a big reason why i love games to this day. Its hard as nails as good games should be, if only developers had the courage to make games this challenging today. ace game, cant wait for the sequels.

Oh yes! i love this game. I had it on american import when it was first released and spent countless weekends on it. My friends loved it, i loved it and the humour and gameplay were top-notch. An absolute must. ;D

I like this game, although to be honest i was a bigger fan of parodious. Something about pirate ships with giant catheads and vegas showgirls as end of level bosses just tickle me. I dunno maybe its just me. As for gradius, its good but r-type is miles better.